PLC Automation Technician

Your role

As an Automation Engineering Technician, you play a vital role in addressing a broad spectrum of maintenance issues within our cGMP facility.

Your tasks:

• Troubleshoot and repair sensitive laboratory, process, and medical equipment, ensuring swift production resumption
• Assist in equipment setup for production operators and engineers
• Install and configure single-loop controllers, tuning PID parameters for process stability
• Maintain accurate cGMP-compliant logs and records, prioritizing safety regulations
• Fabricate mechanical parts for manufacturing equipment and perform routine maintenance on utilities and machinery
• Write, revise, and implement SOPs and procedures, ensuring equipment reliability and proper department documentation
• Support calibration and maintenance technicians, actively participating in their training and development

Your profile

• Associate/Technical Degree or High school diploma with equivalent experience
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing and laboratory equipment maintenance
• Experience in pharmaceutical/medical device industry preferred
• Proficient in Maintenance, Calibration, and diagnostic tools/equipment usage
• Exceptional skills in precision measuring equipment and blueprint interpretation
• Thorough understanding of cGMPs, documentation practices, and effective communication preferred, training available.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, showcasing organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrate independence, motivation, and commitment to safety while collaborating with the Facilities Maintenance Department and managing external contractors

Target Pay Range: $35-40/hour

Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model. The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

What we do in Irvine

Irvine is one of Siegfried’s sterile drug product manufacturing sites, providing contract development and manufacturing services (CDMO) specializing in difficult to manufacture pharmaceuticals, ophthalmics, and drug delivery devices.

Main activities

• Provides cGMP sterile drug product fill finish of biologics, suspensions, emulsions, ointments, and gels
• All fully cGMP and SHE compliant

Features

• Commercial Products: 5 automated filling lines, Commercial manufacturing, Batch sizes up to 150 K units, Fill Volumes 0.5 ml – 100 ml
• Semi-automated and automated visual inspection
• Automated packaging with digital data visual verification
• Stability study services
• Drug delivery
• Laboratory services
• Clinical Products small lot capability (semi-automated filling, batch sizes up to 5 K units)
• Clinical manufacturing (batch sizes less than 5 K units)

Strategic importance

• CDMO for innovative and difficult-to-manufacture products from clinical to commercial NDA and ANDA products
• Provides contract sterile drug product manufacturing and laboratory services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries